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How do you know Jesus was ‘God with us’?

by Joel Radford

The Bible refers to Jesus  Christ as ‘Immanuel’. For example, we read in Matthew’s gospel that Jesus was the fulfilment of a prophecy by Isaiah: ‘All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” […]

What does it mean to be in Christ?

by Joel Radford

We’ve been going through an old list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism published in the 17th Century. Recently we’ve been answering questions about God’s church. Last time we saw that Christians are united with Christ. But what does that mean? Firstly, if you are ‘in Christ’, it means that you […]

What should you do about people who don’t know Jesus?

by Joel Radford

We’ve been going through an old list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism published in the 17th Century. In previous weeks we’ve seen  that Jesus is the only way of salvation, which means those who haven’t heard of Jesus are unsaved. This teaching should disturb us. So today we will look […]

Can those who have never heard of Jesus be saved?

by Joel Radford

We’ve been going through an old list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism published in 1648. Last week I showed you that the Bible teaches that Jesus is the only way of salvation. This teaching usually leads to another question, ‘Can those who have never heard the gospel, and so do […]

Is Jesus the only way of salvation?

by Joel Radford

We’ve been going through an old list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism published in 1648. Today I want to look at the important question, ‘Is Jesus the only way of salvation?’ There are many religions in the world and many of them claim to know a way to an eternal […]

How do we participate in the benefits of Christ?

by Joel Radford

We’ve been going through an old list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism published in 1648. Today I want to look at the questions: What benefits has Christ obtained by his death?; How do we come to be made participants of the benefits which Christ has obtained?; and, Who are made […]

How was Jesus exalted? By his second coming with power

by Joel Radford

We’ve been going through an old list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism published in 1648. In particular, we’ve been looking at how Christ was exalted by  resurrection and his sitting at God’s right hand. Another way that the Christ is exalted is by his coming again to judge the world. […]

How was Jesus exalted? By sitting and interceding

by Joel Radford

We've been going through an old list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism published in 1648. In particular we've been looking at how Christ was exalted by sitting in God's presence – known as his session. We've seen that Christ's session at God's right hand exalts him as it means Jesus […]

How was Jesus exalted? By sitting with all power

by Joel Radford

We’ve been going through an old list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism published in 1648. In particular we’ve been looking at how Christ was exalted by his sitting in God’s presence – known as his session. We’ve seen that Christ’s session at God’s right hand exalts him as it means […]

How was Jesus exalted? By sitting with fullness of joy

by Joel Radford

We’ve been going through an old list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism published in 1648. In particular we’ve been looking at how Christ was exalted by his sitting in God’s presence. We’ve seen that Christ’s session at God’s right hand gives him all favour from God. This week I want […]